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President Donald Trump and New Offshore Drilling Written By: Meaghan Anderson The start of 2018 came with a significant announcement from the White House concerning offshore drilling. On January 4, the Trump administration moved to begin implementation of a 5-year plan that would open 47 new offshore leases spread along virtually the entire [...]

A Walk Down Memory Lane Written by Meaghan Anderson As members of our organization learned a few years ago in 2015, the Texas A&M Society of Petroleum Engineers has been around much longer than students originally thought. While the student organization did not officially become affiliated with SPE until 1978, some alumni dated its origins [...]

An Overview of this Year's Contest Written By Jonathan Holstein Texas A&M is known for its traditions: The 12th Man, Midnight Yell, Fightin’ Texas Aggie Rings, and—if you are a Petroleum Engineering student—the Student Paper Contest. This contest, held each year at the end of January, is a unique part of the PETE curriculum, and [...]

TAMU-SPE receives the Outstanding Student Chapter Award Written By Phoebe Ho - Stone Texas A&M SPE Student Chapter received the “Outstanding Student Chapter Award” for the North America Region for the 2014-2015 year. The combination of strong leadership, active company involvement, and excellent member participation resulted in such a reward. Our chapter will be [...]

ATCE Takes Amsterdam Written By Assiya Suleimonova. Assiya is currently a graduate student in the Harold Vance Department of Petroleum Engineering and is the Marketing Board Chair for TAMU-SPE. This year, SPE’s biggest yearly meeting, the Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE), was held outside of the United States for only the second time in [...]

Petrobowl: Everything you Need to Know Written By: J. Tanner Wachsman What is PetroBowl? PetroBowl is a fast paced, no nonsense petroleum engineering and trivia competition held annually at SPE’s Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition (ATCE). Students from around the world gather at ATCE to represent themselves, their team, and their schools – all in [...]